Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Visitor identification software offers a powerful solution, helping your go-to-market team transform anonymous website visitors into qualified prospects, leads, and revenue. Here are some of the benefits: Lead Generation : Detailed visitor data can improve lead quality and conversion rates.

Sales Qualified Lead 130

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank Software 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? The Lead Generation Process.

Lead Generation 240

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

These are just a few pillars that define demand generation. Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. What is Demand Generation? Demand generation is programmatic.

Demand Generation Agencies 130

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Paid Content 130

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

One of the top reported problems plaguing sales forces is the lack of quality leads. Without a comprehensive lead generation strategy, sales rejection of leads sticks around like a bad rash. Companies are treating the symptoms of poor quality leads without getting to the root cause. Grading sales qualified leads.

Sales Qualified Lead 239

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Blind spots in your addressable market and missed opportunities from good-fit prospects. RevOps teams can break this strategic logjam by leveraging Go-to-Market Intelligence the fusion of high-quality B2B data, high-velocity buying signals, and AI-fueled insights. The result?

Territories 130

Territories Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving. In short, ABM treats individual high-value accounts or collections of good-fit prospect accounts as mini-campaigns, surrounding their buying committees and key influencers with targeted, value-driven marketing assets.

Account Based Marketing 130

Account Based Marketing Account Software Software 130

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As next year’s new plans take shape, the VP of Sales will be leaning on CMO's for more leads. What channel of Demand Generation can yield the highest return and sustained success? Getting the most out of SEO is low-hanging fruit to drive qualified leads into the top of the funnel. Natural Link Growth.

Top of Funnel 276

Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Rank Funnel 276

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. Now is the time to double down on your LinkedIn Lead Generation efforts by engaging these new features: Endorsements. Influencers (Content from Thought Leaders).

Lead Generation 317

Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 317

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

Lead Generation 177

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. Now is the time to double down on your LinkedIn Lead Generation efforts by engaging these new features: Endorsements. Influencers (Content from Thought Leaders).

Lead Generation 314

Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 314

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change.

Lead Generation 243

Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 243

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

B2B marketers have long since understood the benefits of social media—yet many still struggle to leverage its full potential as a demand generation tool. In fact, 49% of B2B marketers rank social media marketing as the most difficult lead generation tactic to execute ( source ).

Demand Generation Agencies 130

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Social Media 130

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2013

He’s facing the extraordinary pressure of leading a Marketing organization at a firm poised to go public. They constantly prepare to meet tomorrow’s buyer behavior and marketing demands. The demands for the CMO keeping pace with the market require constant recalibration. Meet Doug Kuiper. Background.

Outsourcing Services 300

Outsourcing Services Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 300

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Meaning of Value? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Value , Video , execution. One word that is used a lot in sales, probably over used, is Value. Demand Generation.

Pipeline 240

Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Cold Calling 240

SBI Growth

MARCH 5, 2013

When you ask why the number is getting missed: Sales tells you they aren’t getting enough leads from marketing. Marketing says sales can’t convert leads to orders. Demand Generation – Creating interest and attracting new potential customers. Lead Management – Converting leads to qualified opportunities.

Education 320

Education Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets 320

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2023

At ZoomInfo, our demand generation team engages hundreds of thousands of global customers and prospects every month using our MarketingOS platform. Get a Demo Ranked campaign tiers can organize lists by region or other value-based segmentation. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust.

Cost per Lead 130

Cost per Lead Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Lead Rank 130

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Marketing leaders can gain a competitive advantage by executing a high value exercise Develop a Persona Ecosystem. For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan.

Exercises 310

Exercises Lead Scoring Lead Rank Marketing 310

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. In the pas I have posted about leads being a renewable resource.

Pipeline 216

Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 216

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Simple ROI calculations based on lead source have muddied the waters. These one dimensional views over emphasize the value of the clicked action, and under emphasize comprehensive efforts to drive the action. A common mistake is to attribute total success to the original lead source without careful analysis of the chain of events.

Demand Generation Agencies 293

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 293

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

If you’re at a small company or startup, you were probably impressed and inspired by the highly sophisticated and advanced techniques that your peers at large companies with big teams are using to build lead pipeline. Account-Based Marketing orchestration – sure, that sounds great,” you may think. No problem. Geographic location.

Pipeline 270

Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 270

Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2025

But with the right symphony of supporting information, go-to-market teams can leverage intent data to deliver precise, tailored, and timely campaigns that surface truly interested prospects. Declared Intent : The most actionable form, where a prospect explicitly requests a demo or more information. The challenge?

Intent 130

Intent Intent Data Intent Signal Account Based Marketing 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? Plus, let’s not forget, every customer starts out as a lead. No matter where the lead was sourced. Glad you asked!)

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 100

SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most companies are only getting a fraction of the value that is possible from Web Analytics. In fact, sales leaders are tired of hearing about traffic stats when all they care about is if any of it is generating leads for the sales force. Reveals your prospects' interests. These foundations provide rich data input.

ROI 306

ROI Omniture Data Demand Generation Targets 306

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. A year later (just this past July), we converted 1,000 leads to demos. The Value of Preparation. So, how do we do it?

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets 246

The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

3 Lead Generation Myths That Will Clog Your Sales Funnel & Keep You From Closing More Sales. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Funnel management , Guest Post , Lead Management , Prospecting , Referrlas , Sales 2.0 , Sales Technique , execution. Not a pleasing picture, and not functional business model.

Lead Generation 257

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Pipeline 257

The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2011

How To Stretch Your Value to the Max! Therefore, the same had to be true when a client was realising value from our service. Second, the value gained, whether that is increased sales, reduced costs, longer asset life, reduced time to market, you name it, (well actually let the buyer name, you ask the questions that lead to that).

Pipeline 271

Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 271

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

Pipeline 286

Pipeline Prospecting Twitter B2B 286

Pointclear

JULY 9, 2015

We recently asked top industry experts the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? Because it has become clear that marketing automation is making it easier than ever to generate poor quality leads.

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 100

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. An LDR is not a sales rep either.

Outsourcing Services 293

Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. You’ll spin your wheels and get frustrated, leading to turnover, lost productivity, and reduced budget because you can’t get a return on investment.”

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting? Let’s start at the beginning.

B2B 212

B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Prospecting 212

Pointclear

JULY 7, 2015

Marketing Automation makes it easier than ever to deliver more poor-quality leads to sales. A key to this trend is lead scoring. According to SiriusDecisions’ Research Brief 1 , the problem with lead scoring at many organizations is as follows: Lead scoring models are based on assumptions or inadequate sales input.

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 100

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Over the past year, there have been many great Marketing & Lead Generation blog posts. I offer you an executive summary of key takeaways from SBI’s marketing related posts. I have compiled the top 15 questions to evaluate your performance against best-in-class marketing operations.

Marketing 297

Marketing Face-to-face Buyer Persona Lead Scoring 297

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Content Marketing works. B2B Marketing teams are seeing fruit from their investment in content marketing to fuel Lead Generation efforts; 2-3x increase in the quantity of inbound leads. Higher close rates of from inbound leads. More leads that close quicker and at a higher rate of success.

Direct Mail 319

Direct Mail Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. Leads sent to nurture : Number of cold leads you engaged and added to your nurture program. Demos : Number of MQLs that sign up for a scheduled demo. Intent lift.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Demand Generation. Lead Management.

Pipeline 222

Pipeline Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 222

The Pipeline

APRIL 5, 2013

Great questions make for worthwhile listening; crappy questions lead to… well you know. Or any other question of this sort, they develop a standard canned answer, which if not deflected by the seller, will lead to the same predictable outcome, no sale or discounted sale, I guess that’s the penalty for bad questions. Tibor Shanto.

Demand Generation Targets 272

Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Sales Qualified Lead Penetration 272